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Re: recommendations for 8 port hub with no fan?!

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Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.net)
Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:32:24 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:

> I won't argue that fact, but I stand by my clarified statement, for non-
> enterprise uses in the real world, a switch will out perform a hub 995 of the
> time

I'd say the other way around; the `enterprise' situation is likely
to have a nice Cisco Catalyst or something else that's capable of
dealing with a large (or even full) offerred load, and ATM or
gigabit Ethernet interconnects, etc.

On the other hand, the typical home user is likely to buy a cheap
switch that uses store-and-forward rather than cut-through and has
an internal speed of perhaps 200-300 Mbps, or sometimes even less
on a stream of 64 byte packets.

Personally, I bought a NetGear DS309, which I'm very happy with.
This is a nine-port hub with a three-way switch on it. Eight ports
are switched between 10 and 100 Mbps segments, and the nineth port
is a separate port on the switch, which is nice for a server or an
uplink or something like that. (Or partitioning off a another
non-switched segment.)

More importantly, it has status/activity lights on both the front
and the back, and has an internal transformer so that it doesn't
use a wall wart. It cost US$145 via the Internet. (Pricewatch.com
can give you the best current price.)

If it's of interest to anyone, I almost always use a hub rather
than a switch on my home networks. I find it essential because I
often need to have a third machine sniffing the exchanges between
a pair of machines to debug a network protocol or whatever. I'd
prefer a switch with RMON, of course, but I can think of better
things to spend $1500 or more on....

cjs 

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